On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Liam Marshall wrote: > and some of the nics don't have pxe as an option, even though they are on > board nics. Only RPL-Rom, which fails to connect to the terminal server. > I assume there is a config file somewhere to tell the terminal server to > work with both PXE and RPL-Rom?
There are 2 different kinds of RPL bootroms. the Novell kind, and the IBM kind. The Novell RPL is based on IPX/SPX, and i've never heard any reports of them being successfully used to boot a Linux kernel. The IBM flavor of RPL is based on tcp/ip. there is a project called 'rpld' at http://gimel.esc.cam.ac.uk/james/rpld that is made for booting a Linux kernel using an IBM style RPL bootrom. BUT, this project seems to be fairly out of date, and i've never actually been able to boot an LTSP/Linux kernel with it. So, if your motherboard doesn't have PXE, then I think the choices are: 1) Boot Etherboot from floppy 2) Get a network card that contains Etherboot or PXE 3) Integrate Etherboot into the system bios. This step is dangerous, and can lead to a dead motherboard, if you screw up the bios. Having an eprom programmer to save the bios, and restore it if it gets messed up is a real good idea. Hope that helps, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
